but, those issues and others, education reform, there is just no shortage of things we can do to help the american middle class and the economy. we're going to pursue those and we are mindful of it and i think you have to stay connected with what you ran on and you can't bring stuff out of thin air, you know, i think one of the problems with the social security privatization effort during the bush administration was that wasn't really a core thing that he campaigned on. so, the things we campaigned on we'll bring forward in the second term and try and find common ground on. >> chris: all right. the time we have left i want to go through several second term issues and we are beginning to run out of time. a lightning round which i know you love! quick questions and answers. what does the president think of the house republican plan of extending the debt ceiling three months, until april and clean, except for the fact they want to link it to the idea that both the house and the senate pass a budgetnd and if they don't they lose their pay? >> i think -- we don't think short-term is smart